Queensland's Bar Association has reaffirmed its opposition to the Newman Government's anti-bikie and sex offender laws after a stormy annual meeting of barristers in Brisbane last night.

The organisation's leadership also assured members they had not been trying to help the state's Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie further toughen the law when they met him earlier this month.

The ABC revealed yesterday that a Bar Association submission to Mr Bleijie had included proposals for ways to keep people behind bars without resorting to sweeping powers under a new Declarations Act that gives ministers overriding powers to jail sex offenders indefinitely.

The Bar Association document includes a proposal that "casts an onus on the offender" to prove they are likely to comply with supervision orders, in order to avoid jail.

Under the present system it is up to the Crown to prove otherwise.

Lawyers who have seen the submission said another suggestion was for changes that would mean an offender could be kept behind bars indefinitely on the expectation they would commit sexual offences, even if they had never previously done so.

Bar Association president Peter Davis, QC, told the ABC there had been a resolution at the meeting "that we reaffirm our opposition to the bikie laws and the Declarations Act".

Mr Davis said it followed "healthy disagreement and debate as to the approach being made by the Bar Association to the Government".

Barristers alarmed after 7.30 interview with Jarrod Bleijie

Bar Association members were stunned earlier this month when Mr Bleijie revealed on the ABC's 7.30 Queensland program that he had been in discussions with their organisation over ways "to make it harder" to release sex offenders.

Barrister Stephen Keim said many in the profession had been alarmed by the revelations.

"We were all quite sensitive as to whether in fact we were acting to prevent these sorts of changes being made or acting to facilitate these changes and giving our respectability to these political changes," he said.

Mr Davis had faced calls for his resignation yesterday amid allegations of a conflict of interest after it emerged he co-authored the submission to Mr Bleijie.

He represents the Crown in one of Queensland's most high-profile sex offender cases, involving Robert John Fardon, who is named in the submission.

The Attorney-General introduced the Declarations Act, giving him the powers to jail offenders without court endorsement, after the Crown failed in an attempt to keep Mr Fardon behind bars.

The matter is still before the Court of Appeal. Mr Davis has declined to comment further.

In a statement the Attorney-General says he keeps in regular contact with the Bar Association on a range of matters.

"The Bar has recently written to me about the Dangerous Prisoners (Sexual Offenders) Act 2013 and I am currently considering the correspondence," he said in the statement.

"We are keeping our promise to Queenslanders that we would do everything we could to make Queensland the safest place to raise a child."

The Bar Association will now circulate the 15-page submission to members. It was made available – but only by appointment - on Monday after members threatened to call an extraordinary meeting over the issue.

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